Tag Archive: VOA Charter

BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) produced and posted online a video of Angela Davis at the Women’s March in Washington, DC in January 2017 without including any balancing material in the video or identifying her as…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary January 23rd was the 50th anniversary of the Pueblo incident. As recalled in an excellent scholarly article, “‘We will fight them to the last man’: North Korea and the USS Pueblo” posted in the Wilson Center blog…Read more

OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode on Iran: 4.0 US Government International Media By The Federalist Iran Recent demonstrations in Iran in support of “regime change,” a phrase unofficially but effectively banned for…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary Critics of President Trump in the United States seem delighted with a tweet by the Chief White House Correspondent of U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) showing “Saturday front pages of NYC tabloids” with pictures of Donald…Read more

OPINION BBG Total Meltdown Mode 3.0 Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist Before it was removed from one of her Facebook page, Amanda Bennett, Voice of America (VOA) director posted the following:…Read more

BBG Watch Guest Commentary by Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million FY 2017) U.S. government-run media outlet which is part of the dysfunctional and mismanaged Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency ($740 million with…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary “Voice of America China Guo Wengui Part I” was the most viewed post on the BBG Watch site in 2017, getting 17,050 website views in addition to any views and engagements on social media. The second most…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary Ben Rhodes, former Assistant to President President Obama and his Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, was again in the news lately. As reported by The Hill and other media, he “faced backlash from…Read more

BBG Watch One of BBG Watch’s guest commentators, former senior Voice of America (VOA) correspondent Dan Robinson, is also a popular contributor to the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy’s CBD Blog. Robinson’s article, Trump’s Big Fail (So…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary Ines Pohl, the Editor-in-Chief of Germany’s external broadcaster and digital media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW), has shown strong leadership on combating hate against Jews. That kind of leadership when it comes to program management is sorely lacking…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary Six raw footage videos posted on Facebook by editors of U.S. tax-funded ($224 million FY 2017) the Voice of America (VOA) which show protests in the Muslim world against President Trump’s decision on Jerusalem, including burning of…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary In a strong rebuke of the current Obama era management in charge of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the Trump administration said in its new National Security Strategy document that “U.S. efforts to counter the exploitation…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has many journalists, editors, managers and executives who strongly dislike Donald Trump. Some VOA reporters have called him F-words (F*ckface Von Clownstick) on their personal but public Facebook pages and…Read more

BBG Watch Commentary According to new U.S. media reports, including those in Business Insider and Politico, text messages between two FBI agents assigned to the ongoing investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with President…Read more

OPINION Total Meltdown Mode: BBG 2.0 Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist Some recent doings in the dysfunctional world of US Government international broadcasting/media: Town Hall Meeting: “Watch out now, take…Read more

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The long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly with the peoples of the world by radio. To be effective, the Voice of America must win the attention and respect of listeners. These principles will therefore govern Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts:

1. VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news. VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive.

2. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions.

3. VOA will present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively, and will also present responsible discussions and opinion on these policies.

Gerald R. Ford

President of the United States of America

Signed July 12, 1976

Public Law 94-350

Violations of VOA Charter

In 2016, the Voice of America posted one-sided attacks on Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in violation of the VOA Charter.